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  • I'd never held a coin of any kind in my hand since coming to Kyoto.†   (source)
  • Next we stopped at a party given by the chancellor of Kyoto University.†   (source)
  • Did Sayuri tell you Nobu came to my party in Kyoto last week?†   (source)
  • "I'm on my way to a meeting with our Kyoto distributor.†   (source)
  • So I asked: "Pumpkin, are you from Kyoto?†   (source)
  • I could see little of the city as we neared Kyoto Station.†   (source)
  • And then I heard the most pleasing sound I'd heard since coming to Kyoto.†   (source)
  • And very deliberately, I pictured myself meeting Nobu somewhere in Kyoto.†   (source)
  • At last we climbed out of the rickshaw at the campus of Kyoto University.†   (source)
  • We're as far from Kyoto now as Hokkaido is " The others had walked around the bend ahead.†   (source)
  • Back then, around 1930, a fair number of rickshaws still operated in Kyoto.†   (source)
  • You'll repay me by getting yourself out of Kyoto so I'll never have to see you again."†   (source)
  • "Well, little girl," Mother told me, "you're in Kyoto now.†   (source)
  • I'm always saying I ought to spend more time in Kyoto, but … well, one thing leads to another.†   (source)
  • For all I knew, they ground up children in Kyoto and fed them to dogs.†   (source)
  • Did you go up there to take a last look at Kyoto?†   (source)
  • There were other geisha districts in Kyoto, though I didn't know much about them.†   (source)
  • Back in Kyoto, I was carried along in a current of activity over the next few days.†   (source)
  • Now how did the Baron lure you here all the way from Kyoto?†   (source)
  • If only one thing in my life had been the same as during that first week in Kyoto ….†   (source)
  • Perhaps you ought to have stayed in Kyoto.†   (source)
  • "That would be a lovely bow, if only you were a farmer visiting Kyoto for the first time," she said.†   (source)
  • To Shanghai, and Kyoto, and perhaps even Seoul.†   (source)
  • As if to remind me of how many years had passed since I first came to Kyoto as a nine-year-old girl, Etsuko herself was nine.†   (source)
  • Then he lowered his eyes to the darkness that had bloomed on me in the years since I'd come to Kyoto.†   (source)
  • As for Kyoto, it sounded as foreign to me as Hong Kong, or even New York, which I'd once heard Dr. Miura talk about.†   (source)
  • When she learns I was once a geisha in Kyoto, she forms her mouth into a sort of smile, although the corners don't turn up quite as they should.†   (source)
  • My first engagement was a banquet given by an American colonel to honor the new governor of Kyoto Prefecture.†   (source)
  • "I'm terribly sorry" Mother made me say it all again in a proper Kyoto accent, which I found difficult to do.†   (source)
  • One evening late in March I dropped in on a very lively party given by the Governor of Kyoto Prefecture at a teahouse called Shunju.†   (source)
  • At this time in my life I didn't even know where Hakone was—though I soon learned that it was in eastern Japan, quite some distance from Kyoto.†   (source)
  • I didn't know it at the time, but this was a very typical dwelling for the section of Kyoto in which it stood.†   (source)
  • I thought perhaps she might send a letter to me in care of the Nitta okiya, or else come back to Kyoto looking for me.†   (source)
  • I'd been brought to Kyoto for the purpose of becoming one, of course; but up until now I'd have run away in an instant if I could have.†   (source)
  • We got off the train at last in a large town, which I took to be Kyoto; but after a time another train pulled into the station, and we boarded it.†   (source)
  • From the Gion Shrine, we rode north in a rickshaw for a half hour, into a section of Kyoto I'd never seen.†   (source)
  • On another occasion I joined her to accompany the former president of Nippon Telephone & Telegraph on a tour of Kyoto by limousine.†   (source)
  • One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.†   (source)
  • I suppose in sections of Tokyo or Osaka, it might have been the most intact building in the neighborhood; but it stood out in the middle of Kyoto.†   (source)
  • Kyoto wasn't my home; not in the sense Nobu seemed to mean it, of a place where I'd been raised, a place I'd never strayed from.†   (source)
  • The dance every year has a theme, such as "Colors of the Four Seasons in Kyoto," or "Famous Places from Tale of the Heike."†   (source)
  • I won't say my emotions had settled themselves by the time the train pulled into Kyoto Station early the following morning.†   (source)
  • Kyoto had few places a sumo exhibition could be held indoors, and one was Kyoto University's old Exhibition Hall.†   (source)
  • People in Kyoto are trained to say things like this; but it struck me that this poor girl might be telling the truth.†   (source)
  • But there I was on the list with a little paragraph telling some things about me, including that I'd been born in Kyoto—which of course I wasn't.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it possible that my family would be moving to Kyoto, that we would buy a new altar together and set up the tablets before it?†   (source)
  • When spring came, the cherry trees blossomed in Maruyama Park, and no one in Kyoto seemed to talk about anything else.†   (source)
  • Back when I was a little girl of five or six, and had never so much as thought about Kyoto once in all my life, I knew a little boy named Noboru in our village.†   (source)
  • An apprentice geisha from Kyoto!†   (source)
  • But now that I was outside Kyoto, I could see that for most people life had nothing to do with Gion at all; and of course, I couldn't stop from thinking of the other life I'd once led.†   (source)
  • And when she brought out a map and found Yoroido, it lay to the north northeast of Kyoto, which was indeed the direction corresponding to the zodiac sign of the Sheep.†   (source)
  • You see, by this time nearly everyone in Kyoto, and probably the rest of the country, had converted their decorative gardens into vegetable gardens—everyone but people like us, that is.†   (source)
  • This one did take us to Kyoto.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it ought to have been a simple task to raise my eyes and look at the Chairman; and yet somehow I couldn't have felt more nervous if I'd stood alone on a stage with all of Kyoto watching.†   (source)
  • So for the time being, she and Auntie remained on the little farm west of Kyoto where they had set up shop, while I continued to live and work with the Arashino family.†   (source)
  • This tour made quite an impression on me, for it was my first time seeing the vast city of Kyoto that lay beyond the bounds of our little Gion, not to mention my first time riding in a car.†   (source)
  • Years later a famous scientist from Kyoto University, when he was very drunk one night, said something about the costume of an apprentice geisha that I've never forgotten.†   (source)
  • On that very first night after the ceremony, I went on the General's instructions to a small inn in the northwest of Kyoto called Suruya, with only three rooms.†   (source)
  • Many evenings we watched the moon turn red from the fires in Osaka, and sometimes we saw ashes floating through the air like falling leaves—even there in Kyoto, fifty kilometers away.†   (source)
  • When we pulled into a circular drive and I stepped out wearing the full regalia of an apprentice geisha from Kyoto, many of the Baron's guests turned to stare at me.†   (source)
  • In the spring of the year after I became his mistress, the Chairman purchased a luxurious house in the northeast of Kyoto and named it Eishin-an—"Prosperous Truth Retreat."†   (source)
  • You can well imagine that I worried desperately about the Chairman and Nobu, whose company was based in Osaka, and who both had homes there as well as in Kyoto.†   (source)
  • When friends bring photographs from their trips to Kyoto, I often think that Gion has thinned out like a poorly kept garden, increasingly overrun with weeds.†   (source)
  • But I had a most agreeable feeling of importance the rest of that week, reminding myself that a man as prominent as the Baron had invited me to travel from Kyoto to attend a party.†   (source)
  • Mameha's danna, already in his thirties at that time, had not only inherited the title of baron but all of his brother's holdings, including a grand estate in Kyoto not too far from Gion.†   (source)
  • Six weeks after you left for your new life in Kyoto, the suffering of your honored mother came to its end, and only a few weeks afterward your honored father departed this world as well.†   (source)
  • If my mother had lived, I might be a wife and mother at the seashore myself, thinking of Kyoto as a faraway place where the fish were shipped—and would my life really be any worse?†   (source)
  • He wasn't a wealthy man, and she wasn't a beauty; but you could have looked all over Kyoto and not found two people who enjoyed each other's company as they did.†   (source)
  • What has brought you to Kyoto?†   (source)
  • Most of the men sat picking their teeth through it; they were executives of a large company that made rubber valves, or some such thing, and had gathered in Kyoto for their annual banquet.†   (source)
  • And while we in Kyoto were proud that the floor of our new train station was constructed of concrete rather than old-fashioned wood, the floors of American train stations were made of solid marble.†   (source)
  • In the few days since returning to Kyoto, I'd tried not to imagine what he must have seen: the Minister with his pants undone, me with my bare legs protruding from my disordered kimono ….†   (source)
  • At the time of her death she was apparently reading a book to one of her young nephews on her father's estate in the Denenchofu section of Tokyo, and I'm sure she probably felt as safe there as she had in Kyoto.†   (source)
  • My reading and writing were still poor; I'd attended school in the mornings in Yoroido, and since coming to Kyoto had spent an hour every afternoon studying with Auntie, but I could read very few of the names.†   (source)
  • "Kyoto," Mr. Bekku answered.†   (source)
  • When you're taking a lesson in shamisen, for example, you'll be corrected for speaking in anything but the most proper language, or for speaking in a regional accent rather than in Kyoto speech, or for slouching, or walking in lumbering steps.†   (source)
  • I was never more aware of Sayuri's Kyoto dialect—in which geisha themselves are called geiko, and kimono are sometimes known as obebe—than when I began to wonder how I would render its nuances in translation.†   (source)
  • I could sense that he was losing patience; heaven knows he'd certainly been kind in the months since I'd made my debut, permitting me to attend to him while he ate lunch and allowing Mameha to bring me to the party at his Kyoto estate.†   (source)
  • The posters showed a lovely photograph of the pagoda from the Toji Temple in southeastern Kyoto, with a cherry tree to one side and a lovely young apprentice geisha on the other side looking very shy and graceful, and exquisitely delicate.†   (source)
  • They weren't the only foreigners I'd ever seen in Kyoto, but they certainly looked peculiar to me, the big-nosed women with their long dresses and their brightly colored hair, the men so tall and confident, with heels that clicked on the pavement.†   (source)
  • Then one afternoon while I was taking little Juntaro for a walk along the river, picking out stones from the edge of the water and throwing them back in, it occurred to me that Satsu never would come back to Kyoto to find me.†   (source)
  • It said: Sakamoto Chiyo do Nitta Kayoko Gion Tominaga-cho City of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture I was so astonished that I stood a long while with my hand over my mouth, and I'm sure my eyes were as big around as teacups.†   (source)
  • We were afraid we would hear the horrible whistling noise and watch Kyoto burst into flames all around us; and if it had, our lives would have ended right then, whether we had died or not—because Kyoto is as delicate as a moth's wing; if it had been crushed, it could never have recovered as Osaka and Tokyo, and so many other cities, were able to do.†   (source)
  • During lunch one afternoon, I found myself in his private room in the back, entertaining a number of men I hadn't seen in years—the vice president of Nippon Telephone & Telegraph; the new Japanese Consul-General, who had formerly been mayor of Kobe; a professor of political science from Kyoto University.†   (source)
  • Kyoto was one of the most beautiful and peaceful cities I'd ever seen: Buddhist temples, beautifully maintained gardens, the meditative rock gardens with their musical sounds, dripping water, bamboo and tranquillity.†   (source)
  • But the big question, and source of heartache, was what to do with his much-loved memorabilia-the two huge boxes heavy with books and maps, yellowing letters, song lyrics, poems, and unusual souvenirs (suspenders and a belt fabricated from the skins of Nevada rattlers he himself had slain; an erotic netsuke bought in Kyoto; a petrified dwarf tree, also from Japan; the foot of an Alaskan bear).†   (source)
  • Once again I was confronted with a prosperous and industrial country, but because of limited studio space in the host city of Osaka we had to take a fast train every day, for over an hour, to Kyoto for rehearsals.†   (source)
  • "Imagine," he said to me, almost musically, waving his Churchill-length cigar, "spending one's days by a serene lake somewhere near Kyoto, wearing silken white robes and sipping rare sake served by knowing maidens.†   (source)
  • "I would like it to be real," I said, recalling the serene temples I had described to her, the ones in Kyoto I had visited on school trips, the plum trees blooming about their hilltop perches in fantastical color.†   (source)
  • Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B-san, or Mr B, as the Japanese with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B-29; and.†   (source)
  • …the flood took up where the bomb had left off — swept away bridges that had survived the blast, washed out streets, undermined foundations of buildings that still stood — and ten miles to the west the Ono Army Hospital, where a team of experts from Kyoto Imperial University was studying the delayed affliction of the patients, suddenly slid down a beautiful, pine-dark mountainside into the Inland Sea and drowned most of the investigators and their mysteriously diseased patients alike.†   (source)
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